Prusiner proved that prions are a deformed version of an otherwise harmless protein called PRP.

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Scientists had long assumed that these disorders must be caused by a virus, but Prusiner had proposed back in 1982 that deformed proteins, called prions, were the culprit.

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Lansbury noticed parallels between his Alzheimer's theory and Prusiner's prions.

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But a paper in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Dr Prusiner and his colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, holds the possibility of a treatment.

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